Contributors

Jed Perl

Among Jed Perl’s books are Paris Without End: On French Art Since World War I (North Point Press), Eyewitness: Reports from an Art World in Crisis (Basic Books), and New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century (Knopf).

I read somewhere that we brood when we’re alone, we act when we’re together. As in act in a play. But she wasn’t acting, at least she didn’t know she was acting. Or maybe she was a far better actor than he was.